Isn't that how they generally cast that role, though? Both Robert Morse and Matthew Broderick (who've both done it) are fairly short.
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Height is often used as an indicator of age for stage and screen. Short guys play young longer.
Daniel Radcliffe is TINY!
I thought that, too, when I watched it. According to IMDB, he's 5'5" which seems comparatively correct to John Larroquette. He did do a really good job on the show.
I will say, I wasn't terribly impressed by any of the musicals this year. I would love to see Good People, though.
Height is often used as an indicator of age for stage and screen. Short guys play young longer.
Huh. I did not know that.
But in real life, that hasn't applied to me. When I was in college everyone thought I was much younger. Once when working at a fast food place, someone asked me what year I was, and when I said "Junior", everyone assumed I meant a junior in high school, not college.
Oh, hey, Chikat, did you get my email yesterday?
When I was in college everyone thought I was much younger.
I was the other way around--in 4th grade, I had someone think I was a teacher, but only from behind; it was only after she saw me from the front that she realized who I was.
I got my growth spurt early and, up through college, looked older than I was. Then, things turned around, and I've started looking younger.
A 1965 ad, in which Raquel Welch endorses Wate-On, a product to help women gain weight.
Welch says, "I can't afford to be skinny."
Did you see Neil Patrick Harris' closing number? [link] It was being written backstage during the show. [link]